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Pokrass was born to a Jewish family in Kyiv. At eight years of age, Dmitry
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in 1923, Pokrass worked in different genres of variety music. He wrote music for theatres of miniatures and a cabaret, accompanied a Gypsy chorus, the Gypsy song performers E.Dobero and O.Vargina. Pokrass tried to overcome the stale character of the variety genre in romances by using lyrics of
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Bashful Tea Rose", "You Have Smiled at Me", "Warrant Officer Johns", and "Tango Dolores" (lyrics by P.German and O.Osenin). In 1917 he returned to Kyiv, where he found work as an accompanist. In 1919, he worked at the "One-eyed Jimmy" variety theatre in
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Yakovlevich"). Π₯Π ΠΠΠΠ‘ β ΠΡΠ΅ΠΌΠΈΡΠ½Π°Ρ ΠΡΡΠΎΡΠΈΡ Π² ΠΠ½ΡΠ΅ΡΠ½Π΅ΡΠ΅ (HRONOS - World History on the Internet). 25 Feb. 2001. Retrieved 26 Feb. 2009.
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